Malawi has started selling much-needed maize to South Sudan and also exporting some to Zimbabwe and Kenya despites reports that about 10 districts in the country will face starvation due to dry spells. South Sudan Minister of Investment, Commerce and Industry, Garanga Diig Akuong confirmed that they are importing maize from Malawi to pre-empt a […]
By Wanga Gwede, Nyasa Times Malawi lawyer Professor Peter Mutharika has been forced to resign from a three-member tribunal set up to hear the case in which groups of foreign investors are contesting alleged seizure of its land by the government of President Robert Mugabe, it has been reported. The Paris-based International Center for Settlement […]
By Peter Makossah, Nyasa Times Malawi Watch says president Bingu wa Mutharika must get the US$20milion debt back from Zimbabwe and spruce down his bloated cabinet to size in order to address the country’s flagging economy. The watchdog’s Executive Director Billy Banda says Mutharika must move swiftly “in addressing our economic struggles so that we […]
By Evelyn Chibwe, Nyasa Times Malawi’s president Bingu wa Mutharika has hired security forces from Zimbabwe to be used to break down planned August 17 countrywide mass demonstrations against his growing misrule and the deteriorating social, political and economic order in the southern African nation. According to a State House source, most of the ‘mercenaries’ […]
Malawi, once considered a southern African success story, risks going down the same road as regional basket case Zimbabwe, said the leader of recent anti-government protests that left 19 dead. Undule Mwakasungula had been in hiding since security forces launched a violent crackdown to quell two days of demonstrations that erupted July 20. Re-emerging in […]
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday paid a day-long visit to Malawi where he briefed President Bingu waMutharika on the shaky coalition government. “I’m engaging all SADC (Southern African Development Community) leaders because I’m concerned with the discord in our shared government,” Tsvangirai told journalists after the closed-door meeting at Mutharika’s New State House. […]